STOP YOUTH POVERTY

APPEAL FOR URGENT SUPPORT

We are sincerely grateful and appreciative for all the help we have received from our donors to date. We could not have helped Urica, Seth, Alice, Wisdom, etc, without your generous contributions. As an organization we are five years old now and have several of the facilities and amenities we need to run our programmes and projects. Your generous donations made all of this possible and made it feasible for us to meet our Mandate and keep our faith in our Vision. We can therefore say that even though the pace is slow, we are on course with our Mission, thanks to you.

Just as a car needs fuel to run, the allowances to participants for meals and transportation to and from our premises is the fuel that allows us to offer needed support to participants. This is because majority of the beneficiary groups that we serve are poor needy youth, who cannot afford the cost of daily transportation to and from Totally Youth to access all the free support that we have on offer. They are also unable to pay for the daily meals while on the premises. More often than not, we even have to waive the nominal registration fee they need to pay.

Without the support for allowances, we can only help a small number of participants at a time. The situation is so bad that we have had to stop advertising, since so many are not able to meet their transportation and meal costs to take advantage of the support we are offering to them free of charge. These two items are daily recurrent costs that we need urgent support for. We are therefore grateful for all our past donors and we will appreciate their return to support this programme. We are therefore appealing to all our readers and past donors to join our single anonymous donor. We trust that:

1. Our recurrent donors will continue to support us until we become sustainable
2. Our current donors will consider becoming recurrent donors for as little as US$10 or any amount of their choice
3. All our donors will help us attract new recurrent and seasonal donors by sharing the plight of unemployed youth with them and giving them our website address
4. That anybody reading our reports and project details will consider becoming a recurrent or seasonal donor

The number of graduates produced every year is now around 90,000. With only an estimated 10,000 getting into permanent employment, the situation keeps worsening every year. The figures of the unskilled and uneducated is even more staggering. Youth unemployment has directly led to rapid increases in poverty, depression, homelessness, fraud, rape, unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortions, drug/alcohol abuse, broken homes, violence, riots, etc, among the youth.

If our project succeeds, based on our concept of “Youth Creating Jobs For Youth”, we can together make a big dent in the unemployment figures. Youth businesses are bound to employ their peers.. Peer recruitments will therefore increase, especially at the community level. This is a formula guaranteed to succeed and you will be part of the success story. We are grateful for your support but we need your urgent support now. THANK YOU.

Stop Youth Poverty